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04-29-2003 04:30 PM ET (US)
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Sounds like a fun place to work.
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| chico haas
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04-29-2003 04:55 PM ET (US)
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Round up the usual Wen Ho Lee.
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| aha
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04-29-2003 07:13 PM ET (US)
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...also a poplar place to work.
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| Stefan Jones
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04-29-2003 07:30 PM ET (US)
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Lots of trees, huh?
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| Hank, the Angry Drunken Dwarf
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04-29-2003 08:47 PM ET (US)
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Say what you will about the security out there, those guys do pretty well for themselves. I sold a used Ferrari to one of their nuclear-weapons techs back in '98. :)
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| Richard Steven Hack
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04-30-2003 01:18 AM ET (US)
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BWHAHAHAHAHA! This must be where I got that laptop with the homemade nuclear weapon plans that I just sold to some Arab guy named "garbage bin" or something like that...
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| Mothrafugger
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04-30-2003 02:04 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 04-30-2003 02:05 AM
Because I know someone who works at a different DoE facility, I've heard something that might explain some of this (and bear with me if I've gotten this slightly off -- I'll check my facts later this evening): if a computer needs to be turned in *for whatever reason*, everything is supposed to go to a central facility for surpled computer equipment. Even if you can find a use for it somewhere else in your laboratory. Even if it's perfectly good stuff. It can't be donated or used elsewhere. Must. Store. For. Possible. Future. Use. Except that "future use" almost never happens, because by the time someone friggin' gets around to it, the equipment is completely and utterly out of date, as opposed to usable though not even last year's model.
So occasionally equipment does not go to the Big Warehouse Where the Ark of the Covenant Lives because people just can't stand to see stuff go to waste like that.
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| A Friend
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04-30-2003 03:17 AM ET (US)
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Sounds like they should all have their computers taken away and replaced with dumb terminals to me.
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| Mothrafugger
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04-30-2003 06:23 PM ET (US)
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Addendum to my earlier remarks: what I said was basically accurate except that you can reuse stuff within the same department or division without the equipment having to go to salvage first. Anything that's ever had Secret information on it shouldn't go to Surplus ever.
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11-10-2006 01:35 PM ET (US)
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This situation will keep happening until management starts to be held accountable and they start to hold their employees accountable. You make a security mistake (email confidential data, lose a laptop, etc) you are fired. Period. It shouldn't matter if you are a secretary or a CEO. http://www.securityabsurdity.com |
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05-27-2008 03:54 AM ET (US)
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